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People of The Abyss; THE NEON WILDERNESS. By Nelson Algren. 286 pp. New York: Doubleday & Co. $2.50.

By JOHN WOODBURN ();

February 02, 1947,

, Section Book Review, Page BR16, Column , words

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THE world of Nelson Algren's "The Neon Wilderness" is like James T. Farrell's, one he never made. It is not the same world as Farrell's, however, despite the fact that all but eight of these twenty-four brutal, pitiful and piteous stories occur in Chicago, among the streets and alleyways where Studs Lonigan and Danny O'Neill traced their wayward patterns.

February 02, 1947

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